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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] ogg/mp3 volume
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:48:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jpbea0$cd9$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMix8LFkc=cJjTp0rO5xM51AgA4fAp3LCiJfdoCL853==E4C_w@mail.gmail.com>

On 20/05/12 12:41, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
> Just for sake of correctness, what the op wants is called normalization,
> in the world of sound edition.

Actually, no.  That's not what he wants.  Normalization simply adjusts 
to 0db.  How loud something sounds however is not a simple matter of 
what the maximum peak of a waveform is.  ReplayGain actually analyzes 
the music to tell how loud it *sounds*, not how loud it actually is.

For example, you can have audio that was normalized (0db) but doesn't 
sound as loud as, say, -5db audio, but which has compressed dynamic range.

Normalization makes audio equally loud for hardware.  ReplayGain makes 
audio equally loud for humans. :-)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-20 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-19 11:54 [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume Andrew Lowe
2012-05-19 12:09 ` Willie Matthews
2012-05-19 12:22 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-19 12:32   ` Willie Matthews
2012-05-19 14:18   ` Andrew Lowe
2012-05-19 14:19 ` ny6p01
2012-05-20  9:41   ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
2012-05-20 17:01     ` Stroller
2012-05-21  0:44       ` ny6p01
2012-05-21  1:07         ` Michael Mol
2012-05-21 15:26           ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-21 15:45             ` Michael Mol
2012-05-21 16:32               ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-21 16:41           ` Stroller
2012-05-20 18:48     ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2012-05-21 14:14       ` [gentoo-user] " Andrew Lowe
2012-05-21 14:33         ` Michael Mol
2012-05-21 14:51         ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-21 15:10           ` Andrew Lowe
2012-05-21 16:12         ` luis jure
2012-05-21 17:36           ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-21 17:07       ` luis jure

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